Which type of vaccine involves culturing both noninfective and infective viruses together to produce a noninfective vaccine agent with the antigens of the infective virus?
A) Subunit vaccines
B) Conjugate vaccines
C) Reassortment vaccines
D) Recombinant viral vaccines

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Reassortment vaccines contain a noninfective virus that expresses antigens from multiple human and animal strains of the same virus. For example, a chicken egg can be infected with two different viruses. One strain can infect man, while the other strain is noninfective, but grows well in eggs. The genetic rearrangements of the viruses growing in the egg produce a virus that expresses the antigens from the infective virus but is noninfective and grows well in eggs. This reassortment virus would be selected for use in the vaccine.

Which Type of Vaccine Involves Culturing Both Noninfective and Infective